Modo de vida e o papel da Mosca comum, Musca domestica (Insecta: Diptera, Muscidae) como vector de doenças em Moçambique

Abstract

The common fly, Musca domestica, is an insect species that has been widely studied due to its close association with environments contaminated with microorganisms such as bacteria, fungi, viruses and parasites. The fly is a cosmopolitan species that can carry more than 100 different pathogens, including viruses, and can transmit 65% of them. The main aim of this study was to describe the way of life and the role of the common fly, Musca domestica (Insecta: Diptera, Muscidae) as a disease vector in Mozambique. And in this way, to discuss and provide information on ways to manage and control this vector, in order to reduce the outbreak, proliferation and implications caused by diseases such as cholera, diarrheal diseases and others in Mozambique. M. domestica is, from a medical point of view, the most important representative of the species in the Muscidae family, and morphologically it is distinguished from other houseflies by having four dark longitudinal stripes on the dorsal region of the thorax. The housefly feeds two or three times a day, eating any damp or decaying organic or inorganic matter. Its development is holometabolic, going through all the stages of insect development such as egg, larva, pupa and adult. M. domestica can act as a mechanical vector for helminths, viruses, bacterioses and protozoonoses, transmitting helminth eggs, platyhelminth larvae, cysts and trophozoites of bacteria and viruses. This range of vectors results from the fly's indiscriminate way of feeding. In Mozambique, and particularly in the city of Maputo, various species of bacteria have been isolated from M. domestica, and so the potential vectorial role of this species of fly in the transmission of diseases in this city has been hypothesized. These results reinforce the need to carry out more studies, especially literature reviews, related to M. domestica in order to with M. domestica in order to strengthen knowledge about the vectorial role of the fly in disease transmission in Mozambique.